Thursday, January 1st, 1981

SEMINAR at Wisdom's Goldenrod, Hector, NY

with Anthony Damiani (AD)

1981 01/01

PLOTINUS: NATURE - GRID

TOPIC: Plotinus

SUBJECT: Nature

SUBSUBJECTS: Grid, Idea of Man in Soul, 12th House, Astrology

CONTENTS:

The Grid, located at the level of Mercury Pisces Nature

House Structure: ratios in the soul

Zodiac in the soul: soul knows through this intermediary

Each Idea revealed on four levels, corresponds to gnostic functions; four levels of cosmic circuit

Planets determine what soul will know; aspects as medium for revelation of Nous

Degrees as image of Idea of Man in cosmos, house structure as image in the soul

Objective reason-principles = Ideas informing matter

Idea of Man in cosmos is zodiac, the content soul will experience

Aspects as connecting link (vritti) between soul and cosmos, bring about knowledge in soul; senses as entrances and exits

Both heliocentric and geocentric systems in twelfth house, not different

DIAGRAMS appended to this transcript:

• FIGURE AD_G_003. The Grid, 12th House Levels, and Divided Line.

• FIGURE 1981 0101-2-AB. The Grid and Divided Line.

RETYPED AND REFORMATTED by IT 2021

NOTES:

• RETYPED PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT (hence V10). THERE ARE NO AUDIO CASSETTE TAPES EXTANT. Typed from File 1981 0000S1 Plo nature-02R14 grid.PDF.

• Unsure who typed originally.

• This event has no specific date given, but JF and IT think between January-July 1981. In 2025, the previously used date of 1981 0000c was changed to 1981 0101 because the database required a date with year, month, and day.

• AB's class notes from the latter part of June and July 1981 mention concepts that are in these notes, and have several "grid" diagrams, one of which has been appended.

• A grid/diagram sketch done by LCG [Lauren Cottrell] per Anthony's instructions, and from this time period, is appended to this transcript as well.

• For more on The Grid: Gnostic and Fabricative, please see the Appendix to WG Seminar 1981 1016a.

• All spelling, punctuation, and capitalization errors have been corrected.

1981 01/01 SEMINAR at Wisdom's Goldenrod

Plotinus: Nature - Grid

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Grid

[Note from JF: The "Grid" is found at the level of the Mercury Pisces Nature.]

** Idea of Man in Soul = powers of Soul.

House Structure -- the way the Nous is in the Soul; Logos: the ratios in the Soul. The Idea of Man in Soul is a process; the structure of the houses/Ideas is potential meaning. The whole series of aspects -- North Node -- will actualize specific meaning. (South Node is the essence of these experiences distilled.) The zodiac in the Soul -- the degrees are images or forms from the paradigm in the Nous. The Soul knows through the intermediary of these forms. The distribution of the images in the Soul -- the coordination of the degrees with the house structure is the logos of a particular soul, its definition. This is not Soul as logos of the Intellectual Principle.

**Each Idea has four levels corresponding to the gnostic functions -- each Idea is revealed on four levels. The cosmic circuit is revealing itself in time and space in four ways: Unity, Being, Soul and Body (the four Kabbalistic Worlds). Equate the rulerships with Unity, exaltation with Being, etc.

**Any planet can reveal any of the four levels in an Idea. The planets determine what the Soul will know. So it is through the aspects that the Nous is being revealed.

**The house Ideas will be know by/through the essences/degrees specifically assigned to each house by the [one or more words missing].

**Degrees -- image of Idea of Man in the cosmos, in the Cosmic Soul, of which the image in the Soul is the house structure.

**The cosmocrators reveal the objective reason principles in the Demiurgic Intellect. The objective reason principles are equal to the Ideas informing matter. The Idea of Man in the cosmos, the Grand Man, is the zodiacal degrees -- all the Ideas -- and thus is the content the Soul will experience in the cosmos.

**The aspects bring about knowledge in the Soul; the entrance of the objective reason principles and are the medium for projection of meaning from within. The endless variety of aspects are the specifications of the bodies of knowing, willing, and feeling, the relation of Soul forms to the essences in the cosmic circuit. The aspects are the connecting link, the vritti. They have the nature of relationship, a medium revealing A and B. Something of A is known through B and visa versa; because of this relationship we can see the senses as both exits and entrances of knowledge. Considering the senses as entrances, the objective reason principles inform the Soul; the senses as exits -- the Soul interprets experience in the cosmos.

Note: Both heliocentric and geocentric systems are in the twelfth house -- they are not two different systems.

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